Sasha Waters

Sasha Waters has had solo retrospectives at Fisura Festival of Experimental Film, CDMX; the Library of Congress; Microscope Gallery, NYC, and The Brattle, as well as screenings at Kassel Dokfest, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Anthology Film Archives; the Brooklyn Museum; Union Docs, and the Gene Siskel Film Center, among other international venues. Her most recent film, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, features poetry read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Lucy Dacus, and Jesse Welles, plus interviews with writers Jason Reynolds and Ada Limón, filmmaker John Waters, and more. Saved by the Beauty of the World premiered at the True/False Film Festival, is being released theatrically by Kino Lorber and airs on PBS in 2026. 





Format: Unscripted Features, Unscripted Episodic

Genre: Art, Documentary, Experimental, Historical, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Social Justice, Women

Location: Virgina, United States

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship - 2026

Athens International Film Festival Jury Award for MARY OLIVER -2026

Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Studio Residency - 2025

Special Jury Prize in Documentary for GARRY WINOGRAND, SXSW Film Festival - 2018

MacDowell Fellowship Residency – 2017, 2002, 1999